Julian Assange response to Aust. Attorney-General George Brandis
WikiLeaks · @wikileaks
17th Jul 2014 from TwitLonger
Assange responds to Australian AG Brandis call to "man up" #auspol #ozpol
How nice it is to be an Australian in trouble overseas and have the Australian Attorney General attempt to publicly undermine your legal situation. Just weeks ago, US Secretary of State John Kerry faced serious criticism for saying the same thing—that Edward Snowden should "man up" and face decades of imprisonment in the US. Anytime AG Brandis would like to take my place in a US prison, I'm sure the Australian public would be delighted. Until then, AG Brandis should stop plagiarising sexist claptrap and start doing his job: defending the legal rights of all Australians. Finally, as someone who has a professional appreciation for courage, let me remind AG Brandis that that courage is is not the sole preserve of men. For instance, WikiLeaks' female staff members, who squared off with a super power over our work and brought Edward Snowden to safety during the largest intelligence man-hunt the world has ever seen, clearly have more genuine courage in their little toes than exists in the entire Abbott cabinet.
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Nice one, Julian. LOL
Brandis is a Liberal Party Attorney-General, whose career first began in Queensland.
He's not all bad ... he's a supporter of free speech & the right to be a bigot.
But all this spy stuff is worrying:
Brandis supported and approved a December 2013 ASIO raid on Bernard Collaery’s Canberra office (a legal representative for East Timor), where all documents and computers were seized by the government, and which Brandis claimed was for national security interests.
Shortly after the raid, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the Australian government was not permitted to use or view any of the raid evidence.
Brandis claimed the ICJ ruling was a good outcome for the government.
The Timor Gap case involved allegations of ASIS spying during commercial negotiations with the East Timorese over the $40 billion oil and gas reserves of the contested Greater Sunrise fields within the East Timorese exclusive economic zone.
Additionally Brandis approved the ASIO raid and passport cancelation of a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) agent, who was a director of technical operations at ASIS and the whistle-blower on the allegations of commercial spying done by Australia on East Timor, which consequently prevented the unnamed former agent from testifying at the ICJ in the Netherlands.
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[ASIS - Aussie intelligence agency]
That commercial spying stuff sounds really unethical.
If it involves billions in oil and gas, what's the bet the US were involved?
The women at Wikileaks must be pretty tough ... wouldn't take much for me to give up. LOL.
